Mclaren MP4-30 Honda

[Hail22]

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[bigblue]

Don't know much about these things, so maybe this is well known, but, what's the bolt-in panel in the middle of the upper surface of the front wing for ?

[Thunder]

Finally, called it after Malaysia already that McLaren will tighten up the Bodywork around the Exhaust with the RW Support they introduced there. Now i can sleep well. Thanks PP.

Really impressive what amount of Updated McLaren is pumping out.

[Thunder]

Don't know much about these things, so maybe this is well known, but, what's the bolt-in panel in the middle of the upper surface of the front wing for ?

That's where the Teams put the Ballast Weight.

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[bigblue]

Aha. I thought it might be ballast, but thought it was too small to get any appreciable weight so thought not in the end. I'm curious, does anyone know how much they can add there ?

[turbof1]

Aha. I thought it might be ballast, but thought it was too small to get any appreciable weight so thought not in the end. I'm curious, does anyone know how much they can add there ?

Quite a few kilo's actually. I think they use very heavy metals like tungsten or wolfram.

[R_Redding]

Quite a few kilo's actually. I think they use very heavy metals like tungsten or wolfram.

Tungsten is Wolfram .. Wolfram is the "Ye olde name" .. as the main ore Tungsten is extracted from is called Wolframite.

Rob

[Postmoe]

They couldn't afford iridium? Cheap...

[Mattchu]

Fair play to McLaren for the Aero updates but boy they haven`t half cribbed Mercedes and Ferarris work! I understand teams pretty much always copy each others work (especially if it works), it`s shame that innovation is extremely difficult under the current regulations because McLaren used to come up with some really neat ideas.
Soon we`re going to have all the cars looking pretty much identical (short stub nose/swoopy batwing) apart from the colour/decals!

Anyone any idea why they might have to 2 square holes either side of where the wing itself joins the nose? I`d have thought this would disrupt the airflow where you would want a nice clean stream going through...

[PlatinumZealot]

Extreme angle on Exhaust & tight Bodywork around Exhaust now:

http://img3.auto-motor-und-sport.de/McL ... 903801.jpg

[PlatinumZealot]

Fair play to McLaren for the Aero updates but boy they haven`t half cribbed Mercedes and Ferarris work! I understand teams pretty much always copy each others work (especially if it works), it`s shame that innovation is extremely difficult under the current regulations because McLaren used to come up with some really neat ideas.
Soon we`re going to have all the cars looking pretty much identical (short stub nose/swoopy batwing) apart from the colour/decals!

Anyone any idea why they might have to 2 square holes either side of where the wing itself joins the nose? I`d have thought this would disrupt the airflow where you would want a nice clean stream going through...

The square holes will be covered.

[ojlopez]

Extreme angle on Exhaust & tight Bodywork around Exhaust now:

http://img3.auto-motor-und-sport.de/McL ... 903801.jpg

Are they trying to stall the rear wing with the exhaust at full throttle?

[Andres125sx]

Does anyone know if the aero updates will be used in both cars?

[GoranF1]

Does anyone know if the aero updates will be used in both cars?

Only ALO....but he is slow so far...

[Andres125sx]

8 tenths faster than Button on first stint is not slow if you ask me